The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-09-08
mako The Long Death cry like that,"

mako The Long Death cry like that7"
1shouted at them. ''Here, pull up
my trousers and See where the COW:
ardly Sioux shot powder into my legs:
Pull off my boots and find where the
Cheyennes applied the fire sticks:
Did ! weep like d woman! Go ask
them: And when you ask that; in;
quire who killed the Black Eagle, Red
Horse, Big Mountain, Great Buffalo
and Black Feather. They will tell
you, The Long Death.
But for the presence OF tour or five
chiefs should have done for on. the
spot, so excited were the young men.
BY this time Sewell, had regained his
senses, and was sobbing and .wailing
again, and they went back to their
sport. A warrior approached him
with a sharp knife and slashed him in
fifty different places, each cut being
deep enough to be painful, but mono
of them very serious. The gush OF
blood soon turned the man into g.
horrible looking object, and several
times he would have tainted had they
not had water at hand to throw over
him. He had screamed so loud and
long that his voice was now entirely
gone, and the only sound he could
utter was a groan. He had long seem.
ed unconscious of my presence, and l
was glad Of this. I do not think he
was in his full senses after the burn
ing. After the warrior had cut and
slashed with his knife he fell back to
give place to another. This second
one meant to do finer work. He meant,
as a first move, to cut the victim 8
tongue out, but as he reached for it
with his left hand Sewell snapped at
him like dog, got tho black hand
firmly between his jaws, and then
there was a. grand uproar. Every
body enjoyed the fix the Indian was
in, and whenever he motioned as if
he meant to use his knife they shouted
to MIN to, give tho victim fair play:
Sewell held to HIM for fully FIVE min.
utes, decorating the hand like q
bulldog, and then three or four war
riors seized him and made him let go.
The bitten warrior relinquished the
knife to another and during the next
quarter of an hour Sewell suffered the
loss of his nose, ears, fingers and lips.
He shrieked out in agony when his
nose was sliced off, but after that he
never even groaned, and I consoled
myself with the nope that he was
dead. The Indians finally became
satisfied that they could get no more
'fun" out Of him, and he was scalped
and the faggots at his feet were lighted
to consume tine body.
My time had come. There was a
grand yell from every warrior as the
two guards led me to the stake. How
did i feel? Well, was recklessIy des-
perate. 1hated to 60 without hav-
ing revenge on some OF them, and, as
there was no other way, I gave them
a tongue flashing. l called them wom-
en- and towards; I cited fictitious
cases, when one hunter had licked six
OF them; l dared and defied them to
do their worst. I had them worked
up until they fairly screamed for my
blood, and l reasoned that the tor
ture would not last long. I was
stripped of every vestige OF clothing,
bound hand and foot to the stake,
and, as in the engineers case, two
warriors made ready to shoot powder
into me. They were loading their guns
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cottonwoods behind the camp, came
a line OF forty men on a run, and just
IN the rear OF them seventy-five army
troopers. 1 saw the men before any
one else in camp. Indeed, they were
not pistol shot away when the alarm
was given. 1t was the quickest and
bloodiest fight on record. Six OF the
dismounted men pushed straight fol-
me, knowing l was likely to be killed
by some savage, and was cut loose
and revolver was given to me before
the fight was hardly on. In ten min
utes not a living buck was left in camp
We killed twenty-five and the rest
broke out of reach. Seven or eight
old men, nine or ten young fellows and
six squaws were likewise killed. W.
captured ninety-two ponies, a great
lot OF powder and lead. several hun
dred dollars worth of robes, and
dealt the tribe blow it never recov
cred from. What we could not car
ry away We burned, and not an arti
Gle they could make useful was left.